Heat transfer in a particle curtain falling through a horizontally-flowing gas stream

Wardjiman, Chrestella; Rhodes, Martin

doi:10.1016/j.powtec.2008.10.011

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“…The H 2 S and free sulfur in the flue gas entering into the second cyclone will be burned out with the air in the strong oxidizing atmosphere. The flue gas with high content SO 2 will be cooled through fell cloud type heat exchanger (14) − and purified for producing sulfuric acid.…”

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Experimental Studies on Decomposing Properties of Desulfurization Gypsum in a Thermogravimetric Analyzer and Multiatmosphere Fluidized Beds

Zhu

Yang

et al. 2012

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.

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This paper proposes a new technical process to utilize flue gas desulfurization (FGD) gypsum in fluidized beds. Gypsum is stable in the inert atmosphere and instable in the reducing atmosphere. Decomposing properties of gypsum in multiatmospheres were investigated in both a thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) and a fluidized bed reactor. Results from the TGA showed that the initial decomposing temperatures of gypsum in all reducing atmospheres are about 800 °C; however, the ratio between CaS and CaO in the product is influenced by CO concentration ([CO]). Higher [CO] is beneficial to speeding the decomposition. The analysis of mass spectrometer showed that part of CaS was oxidized to CaO when the atmosphere was changed from the reducing one with [CO] = 2% to the oxidizing one with O2 concentration of 0.6%, which was proved by the XRD analysis of the final product with content of CaO of 91.6%. Fluidized bed experiments were done in a hot, lab scale, bubbling reactor. Results showed that CO2 can increase the CaO content in the product by restraining the side production of CaS significantly. After gypsum decomposition in the reducing atmosphere, a certain amount of air was injected to change the atmosphere to oxidizing, and more SO2 was released. The present research proves that a multistage fluidized bed system with multiatmospheres is feasible for gypsum decomposition.

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